Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite police and National Guard protection, the truckers kept running scared. Many carried guns in their cabs and were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...
...observers have remained so detached. New Republic contributing editor Roger Morris, in the third installment of that magazine's excellent "Pretenders to the Throne" series on presidential hopefuls in both parties (TNR. Jan. 28), attacks Brown for his vagueness on the issues and his lack of commitment to serious reform. Arguing that Brown's nonideological politics are "abstract, stylishly popular and perhaps personally gratifying, but ultimately barren regarding authentic change in government," Morris condemns Brown as a glib opportunist, if not an outright demagogue...
...Some corporate chiefs say that relations have improved lately because Carter and his Cabinet are beginning to listen to them. William Hewitt, the chairman of Deere & Co. (farm equipment), reflected on last week's Administration spokesmen: ";They said nothing new, but there is no disadvantage in that." Added Roger Birk, president of Merrill Lynch: "Such communication is a positive thing, and it does help business confidence...
...Roger D. Fisher '43 is one of those rare professors who aggressively practices what he preaches...
While researching their book, Wife Beating: The Silent Crisis, co-authors Roger Langley and Richard C. Levy discovered that husbands get banged around too. In fact, while the pair estimates that there are 28 million battered wives in the country, they put the figure for battered husbands at 12 million. A beaten husband has some extra problems, says Levy. "Should he take the abuse or fight back? Whether he is a sniveling mouse or a Neanderthal brute, society will reject...